Bug#373766: xserver-xorg-video-ati: 3D accelerated display shifted to the left with some apps.

[Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>]

Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org> writes:

> I've sometimes noted in the past that 3D accelerated hacks from the
> xscreensaver package ran about 50% displaced to the left and I can
> sometimes provoke /usr/lib/xscreensaver/lament to displace its
> picture by using opaque-resize in fvwm.
>
> Now Google Earth Beta 4 for linux always triggers that bug, making it
> unsuable. An example: http://dudelab.org/~taupan/google-earth-bug.jpg

if you update to the mesa packages from experimental you'll see these
problems mostly go away (some fixes were only just committed to cvs).
this is not a problem with the xserver per se, but with direct
rendering in mesa. a new version of mesa in unstable would be nice.

--alex--

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